Bits
an image of a female crested black macaque monkey is at the heart of a legal row between UK wildlife photographer David Slater and Wikimedia Commons over its #copyright status https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2018/01/article_0007.html via https://bionicteaching.com/weekly-web-harvest-for-2024-01-11/
This desire to automate what can and must be human response is also simply a further indication of the dismissal of the importance of the labor of the primarily non-tenure-track faculty who teach courses like first-year writing … even entertaining the notion that the work can be done by generative AI shows the depth of scorn some administrators have for work that should be viewed as central to the institution. #ai #llm https://archive.ph/pBs1X
when disinformation is free, how can we restrict quality information to the privileged who choose to afford it? #ai #llm https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/01/24/the-information-grey-goo/
Music & Sound
A fantastic talk with Mark Hosler and Jon Leidecker of #negativland on #wfmu https://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=136214&archive=247346&starttime=1:02:04
The History of the Mellotron #synth #music https://www.gearnews.com/british-giants-the-history-of-mellotron-the-worlds-first-sampler/
“accommodate many levels of attention without enforcing one in particular.” #ambient #synth https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/music-for-airports-list
I somehow missed this 2021 #negativeland #tinydesk https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/993927925/negativland-tiny-desk-home-concert .. this is the bar by which live, online performances should be measured
Film & Video
I am Philbert now, but soon
https://www.criterionchannel.com/powwow-highway
I will be Whirlwind Dreamer.
Powwow Highway .. the older cousin of #reservationdogs
Politics & Economics
“We are seeing accidents happen. We are frightening the public. We are getting laws passed [banning the drug]. We are not using the anthropological approach of insinuating a valuable drug of this sort into our culture . . . gradually demonstrating the goodness of the thing.” https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2024%2F01%2F29%2Ftripping-on-utopia-margaret-mead-the-cold-war-and-the-troubled-birth-of-psychedelic-science-benjamin-breen-book-review
